What do you want to be when you grow up - Page 4

**Specforces** · 11-10-2005, 02:39 PM

I think a better title for this thread would be, "what are your life goals and ambitions?" Still, I understand the question. What do I want to be when I grow up? At one time I wanted to be an archeologist. This was when I was 12 years old. Soon, that notion was dismissed and I decided that I wanted to be a chef and own my own restaurant. After awhile, I realized it wasn't what I wanted either. Then, I decided that I wanted to be a CIA agent. This is what led me to the military. After being in the military for almost 2 years now, I've realized that this goal would not suffice either. It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted. What could I do in this world? Something that would make me happy, something that would be productive. After all of this time I've decided that I want to be a college professor. To reach out to the minds of today's youth. To teach life lessons, change lives for the better, and force people to think. Society today is stuck in the grooves of what they're told to do. We don't need drones, we need thinkers and ambitious creators. From grade school on you're groomed to become a "good" member of society, I think some ways need changing.

To sum it up: history, culture, philosophy professor.

Bodom13 · 11-10-2005, 02:41 PM

secret agent

**Reach** · 11-10-2005, 05:00 PM

I'm trying to get into dentistry.

Assuming I change my mind, or can't get in (oh hell no) then...probably a physicist ...o_O XD Physics is easily the most interesting science, and its always been my favorite. Up to this point anyway. I'm enjoying the physics I'm doing now.

Something to do with computers, writing, teaching or animals would be nice too.

**talisman** · 11-10-2005, 05:07 PM

reach and nima both dentists?

**Reach** · 11-10-2005, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by talisman

reach and nima both dentists?

Nima? He's too busy playing sm...XD

I know they only accept 32 students here, I have no idea about there...but that means...it's retardedly hard to get in. Even with my stupidly high average right now, it won't be easy getting in. I guess I could go somewhere else for dentistry, but its expensive and more difficult.

shade11 · 11-10-2005, 06:21 PM

Sorry about no question mark. Sometimes I type so fast that I forget it.

**PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR** · 11-10-2005, 07:18 PM

When I grow up a Racecar Passanger. Just the guy who bugs the driver.

"Say man, can I turn on the radio?"
"You should slow down."
"Why do we have to keep going in circles?"
"Man, you really like tide."

Omeganitros · 11-10-2005, 08:26 PM

Spec: Reach out to their minds before College. Awesome high school teachers FTW.

P.S.

Okay. I'm making a schedule for my senior year of High School. I'd have 2 electives, but I already know I'm taking my 2nd year of Cisco Networking, so I only have one elective. Right now, I'm torn between these two:

Pre-Engineering
This course uses the Infinity Project curriculum to help students apply mathematical and scientific concepts to real-life problems. Students explore, create design and experiment in engineering areas that include: the internet, cell phones, digital video, movie special effects, electronic music and various digital technologies.

Media Technology 1
This course is designed to provide job-specific training for entry-level employment in movie, audio, radio, and television production careers. Instruction includes operation of different types of cameras, mastery of audio techniques, electronic editing, creation of television graphics, lighting, script writing, direction, production, special effects, signal control and monitoring equipment, set design, entrepreneurship, safety, leadership training, opportunities for post-secondary study, and career opportunities.

I'm REALLY torn between them. On one hand, Pre-Engineering sounds really cool because working on stuff like cell phones and digital video and electronic music appeals to me and sounds like it would let me get a taste of everything, to see what I like and I don't like. On the other hand, in Media Technology, I'm really interested in the audio mastering, electronic editing, production and direction. And the leadership soudns good too.

**Kilgamayan** · 11-10-2005, 08:36 PM

A bear.

EDIT: Goddamnit, Mal.

EDIT 2: Right now I'm going through college with teaching math in mind. However I'm not going to be in the field for long - once a couple of my friends that are each at least one year behind me finish college we're going to all do the JET program together and dick around Japan for a few years.

Depending on what happens once that's all done, I'll either stay here and teach math - Massachusetts is pissing itself looking for math and science teachers these days and will be for several years to come - or I might return to Japan permanently and see what I can eke out over there. Former is more likely but I'd rather see the latter play out.

**Specforces** · 11-10-2005, 11:48 PM

What kind of math are we talking about here?

rydenHS · 11-11-2005, 12:03 AM

Idea # 1: I wanna get A+ certified this year and then get out of high school. Don't know what collage im going to go to but yea...after collage I want to work at a local computer store where they fix/build/sell computers.

Idea # 2: Bum in NYC woot!

jewpinthethird · 11-11-2005, 02:13 AM

I too am considering the JET programme. My plan is if I havent figured out what I want to do with my life by the time I get my associates degree, I'm going to join the HET programme.

ad0gg · 11-11-2005, 04:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrGiggles

An ASTRONAUT!!!!!!

Seriously. I've always wanted to be an astronaut. I love space. I don't care what anybody says. I'm going to do anything I can to become an astronaut.

</motivational example>

**Kilgamayan** · 11-11-2005, 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Specforces

What kind of math are we talking about here?

I'm in the secondary education program, so anywhere from 8th grade to collegiate math.

**Snapps** · 11-11-2005, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Hoisin Sauce plz (11:20:11 PM): I'm asking Kilga
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:20:12 PM): the math major
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:20:14 PM): 8)
Snapps50 (11:20:15 PM): aight
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:20:27 PM):
bjstrattonIM (9:22:05 PM): Hell if I know, I never took PSDM.
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:20:30 PM): SOME MATH MAJOR
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:20:36 PM):
bjstrattonIM (9:22:08 PM): I just went straight to Calc.
Snapps50 (11:20:54 PM): bjstridontknowmath: i want to be a math teacher 8)
Snapps50 (11:21:00 PM): yeah right
Snapps50 (11:22:07 PM): Snapps50 (11:21:29 PM): next time learn math before wanting to persue teaching
Snapps50 (11:21:30 PM): k
Snapps50 (11:21:31 PM): thanks
Snapps50 (11:22:12 PM): lol dunno if he gotz da messegz
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:23:10 PM): bjstrattonIM (9:24:47 PM): Okay, fine.
bjstrattonIM (9:24:54 PM): In a permutation, order matters.
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:23:12 PM): SUDDENLY HE KNOWS
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:23:13 PM): LOL
Snapps50 (11:23:33 PM): ROFL
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:24:46 PM): That's how fucking math teachers are
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:24:52 PM): You ask them a question they're like ionno lol
Hoisin Sauce plz (11:25:03 PM): and then later on they're like PS ROFL I KNEW IT PSPS HERES A TEST ROFL FAILED8)
Snapps50 (11:26:02 PM): hahaah

Arthur122368 · 11-11-2005, 10:29 AM

A professional guitarist.

I think i already posted this?

shade11 · 11-12-2005, 06:05 PM

For me. the programming buisness is good. I am a "Math" kind of guy.

evilbutterfly · 11-12-2005, 10:24 PM

I have wanted to make video games since I was old enough to play them and realize that I had cooler ideas. I wrote all those awesome great ideas down in notebooks, too. Of course, now I look back and I realize that all my ideas were just Mario and Doom clones

. OH WAIT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE REAL GAME INDUSTRY DOES!! So basically I've been perfect for lead design guy for games since I was 5! YAY!

But seriously, I wanna learn programming and have my own little company (and when I say little, I mean REALLY TINY). It'll basically just be some games released online here and there with a donate button on the website if you wanna be so kind. As soon as I learn some programming languages and am able to I will slowly start pumping out little games and eventually get webhosting and make you guys all play them. But I plan to eventually get better and move from crappy webgames to downloadable .exe games that get better and better as I learn more.

Basically, my little company's site and will help boost my resume so that I can maybe get hired at a game company (Epic games has their central office in Raleigh, and I would love to work for them

). Also, alot of the games I make will be in the same basic storyline, and I have this grand idea that would take a major company to do, and I plan to sell the idea to the company once I get part of the idea working by myself.

But um, I'll need people for my tiny little company. If it's just me, you'll be piloting the SS Triangle against the horrible Box Army with their devastating Rectangle Missiles and Circle Bombs, all while listening to a really bad 30 second loop of shitty techno music! It'll be an awesome game, but it'll look and sound like crap if I can't recruit people to help out. o___O

**Chromer** · 11-12-2005, 10:47 PM

I plan to become a Biochemist and someday discover a safe and afordable cure for AIDS.

-Izzy- · 11-13-2005, 03:09 AM

i want to be a fireman.

Kinda like that guy from fantastic 4.

11-10-2005, 02:39 PM	#61
Specforces Yes Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 5,028	I think a better title for this thread would be, "what are your life goals and ambitions?" Still, I understand the question. What do I want to be when I grow up? At one time I wanted to be an archeologist. This was when I was 12 years old. Soon, that notion was dismissed and I decided that I wanted to be a chef and own my own restaurant. After awhile, I realized it wasn't what I wanted either. Then, I decided that I wanted to be a CIA agent. This is what led me to the military. After being in the military for almost 2 years now, I've realized that this goal would not suffice either. It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted. What could I do in this world? Something that would make me happy, something that would be productive. After all of this time I've decided that I want to be a college professor. To reach out to the minds of today's youth. To teach life lessons, change lives for the better, and force people to think. Society today is stuck in the grooves of what they're told to do. We don't need drones, we need thinkers and ambitious creators. From grade school on you're groomed to become a "good" member of society, I think some ways need changing. To sum it up: history, culture, philosophy professor. __________________ Check Out My Music

11-10-2005, 05:00 PM	#63
Reach FFR Simfile Author Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Age: 39 Posts: 7,471	I'm trying to get into dentistry. Assuming I change my mind, or can't get in (oh hell no) then...probably a physicist ...o_O XD Physics is easily the most interesting science, and its always been my favorite. Up to this point anyway. I'm enjoying the physics I'm doing now. Something to do with computers, writing, teaching or animals would be nice too. __________________

11-10-2005, 08:36 PM	#69
Kilgamayan Super Scooter Happy Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Location, Location. Age: 41 Posts: 6,583	A bear. EDIT: Goddamnit, Mal. EDIT 2: Right now I'm going through college with teaching math in mind. However I'm not going to be in the field for long - once a couple of my friends that are each at least one year behind me finish college we're going to all do the JET program together and dick around Japan for a few years. Depending on what happens once that's all done, I'll either stay here and teach math - Massachusetts is pissing itself looking for math and science teachers these days and will be for several years to come - or I might return to Japan permanently and see what I can eke out over there. Former is more likely but I'd rather see the latter play out. __________________ I watched clouds awobbly from the floor o' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

11-10-2005, 11:48 PM	#70
Specforces Yes Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 5,028	What kind of math are we talking about here? __________________ Check Out My Music

11-11-2005, 12:03 AM	#71
rydenHS FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Orange County, NY Posts: 468	Idea # 1: I wanna get A+ certified this year and then get out of high school. Don't know what collage im going to go to but yea...after collage I want to work at a local computer store where they fix/build/sell computers. Idea # 2: Bum in NYC woot! __________________

11-10-2005, 05:07 PM	#64
talisman Resident Penguin Join Date: May 2003 Age: 39 Posts: 4,598	reach and nima both dentists?

11-10-2005, 06:21 PM	#66
shade11 FFR Player Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 373	Sorry about no question mark. Sometimes I type so fast that I forget it.

11-10-2005, 08:26 PM	#68
Omeganitros auauauau Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Hee-Haw! Age: 37 Posts: 8,897	Spec: Reach out to their minds before College. Awesome high school teachers FTW. P.S. Okay. I'm making a schedule for my senior year of High School. I'd have 2 electives, but I already know I'm taking my 2nd year of Cisco Networking, so I only have one elective. Right now, I'm torn between these two: Pre-Engineering This course uses the Infinity Project curriculum to help students apply mathematical and scientific concepts to real-life problems. Students explore, create design and experiment in engineering areas that include: the internet, cell phones, digital video, movie special effects, electronic music and various digital technologies. Media Technology 1 This course is designed to provide job-specific training for entry-level employment in movie, audio, radio, and television production careers. Instruction includes operation of different types of cameras, mastery of audio techniques, electronic editing, creation of television graphics, lighting, script writing, direction, production, special effects, signal control and monitoring equipment, set design, entrepreneurship, safety, leadership training, opportunities for post-secondary study, and career opportunities. I'm REALLY torn between them. On one hand, Pre-Engineering sounds really cool because working on stuff like cell phones and digital video and electronic music appeals to me and sounds like it would let me get a taste of everything, to see what I like and I don't like. On the other hand, in Media Technology, I'm really interested in the audio mastering, electronic editing, production and direction. And the leadership soudns good too.

11-11-2005, 02:13 AM	#72
jewpinthethird (The Fat's Sabobah) Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Palm Springs, California Posts: 11,711	I too am considering the JET programme. My plan is if I havent figured out what I want to do with my life by the time I get my associates degree, I'm going to join the HET programme.

11-11-2005, 10:29 AM	#76
Arthur122368 FFR Player Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: nowhere Posts: 98	A professional guitarist. I think i already posted this? __________________

11-12-2005, 06:05 PM	#77
shade11 FFR Player Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 373	For me. the programming buisness is good. I am a "Math" kind of guy.

11-12-2005, 10:24 PM	#78
evilbutterfly FFR Player Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Small town, TN Age: 39 Posts: 5,784	I have wanted to make video games since I was old enough to play them and realize that I had cooler ideas. I wrote all those awesome great ideas down in notebooks, too. Of course, now I look back and I realize that all my ideas were just Mario and Doom clones . OH WAIT, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE REAL GAME INDUSTRY DOES!! So basically I've been perfect for lead design guy for games since I was 5! YAY! But seriously, I wanna learn programming and have my own little company (and when I say little, I mean REALLY TINY). It'll basically just be some games released online here and there with a donate button on the website if you wanna be so kind. As soon as I learn some programming languages and am able to I will slowly start pumping out little games and eventually get webhosting and make you guys all play them. But I plan to eventually get better and move from crappy webgames to downloadable .exe games that get better and better as I learn more. Basically, my little company's site and will help boost my resume so that I can maybe get hired at a game company (Epic games has their central office in Raleigh, and I would love to work for them ). Also, alot of the games I make will be in the same basic storyline, and I have this grand idea that would take a major company to do, and I plan to sell the idea to the company once I get part of the idea working by myself. But um, I'll need people for my tiny little company. If it's just me, you'll be piloting the SS Triangle against the horrible Box Army with their devastating Rectangle Missiles and Circle Bombs, all while listening to a really bad 30 second loop of shitty techno music! It'll be an awesome game, but it'll look and sound like crap if I can't recruit people to help out. o___O __________________ So I've gone completely slack-ass and haven't done any work on creating games. =( In less-depressing news, I got a job for an online business (which sells non-electronic games, of all things!) which has taught me a lot about marketing online and all that jazz. So now I'm on Twitter @NoahWright. And I write the blog for their website. Plus I do cool programming in-house that you'll never see. =O

11-12-2005, 10:47 PM	#79
Chromer Hookers and Blow Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: You heard the robot. No fun. Age: 36 Posts: 4,981	I plan to become a Biochemist and someday discover a safe and afordable cure for AIDS. __________________

11-13-2005, 03:09 AM	#80
-Izzy- Banned Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,629	RE: What do you want to be when you grow up i want to be a fireman. Kinda like that guy from fantastic 4.

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